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Fourthly, True, Christ did pray to be delivered from it; when he came to smell the Cup, it was so horrid, that the human nature flew back, as if he had repented of his undertaking: but Christ was not bound to pray that prayer, there was no duty in it, obedience to a Command (which is my Argument) but only the human nature, amazed, astonished at the dread of what he was now going upon, would have saved it self: it did discover the reality of his humane nature, but no sin in it: whence I leave it to any judicious Reader, whether there be any thing in this Answer to take off my Argument.

Fourthly, True, Christ did pray to be delivered from it; when he came to smell the Cup, it was so horrid, that the human nature flew back, as if he had repented of his undertaking: but Christ was not bound to pray that prayer, there was no duty in it, obedience to a Command (which is my Argument) but only the human nature, amazed, astonished at the dread of what he was now going upon, would have saved it self: it did discover the reallity of his humane nature, but no sin in it: whence I leave it to any judicious Reader, whether there be any thing in this Answer to take off my Argument.

Seventh Arg. Lastly, I will not draw my Argument into form, but this I would say, blessed Lord, what mean these worthy men? do we find the sons of men to be so eagerly set after thy Love, after thy Grace? are men so disquieted without thy Love, and thy Grace, that we must now go teach them, that they must be quietly contented and satisfied, if they suppose thou wilt never give them thy Grace? How long may thy poor Ministers preach, and mourn at last that they cannot get one, persuade not one in a year to care for thy Love, to regard thy Grace? Instead of quarrelling with thee, because thou wilt not give them thy Love and Grace, they quarrel with us, because we stir them up to seek it, and threaten them from thee, because they neglect it: So that certainly of all doctrines this doctrine might have been spared. Mr. Shepherd, p. 97. speaking against some, saith, Are we troubled with too many wounded Consciences in these times, that we are so solicitous of coining new principles of peace? The same say I, are we troubled with too many disquieted Souls for the Love of God, and the manifestation of his Grace, that we must invent a new way how to quiet them, not new principles of peace, but new principles of trouble; heart-stabbing principles; to be content without Gods Love, Grace, to be content to abide the state of damnation; to tell the Devil, that if God will give me up to my lusts, and damn me, yet so he hath the honour of his Power and Justice, I am content.